I finally got to try the Wii Fit last weekend in between the cookies and cupcakes at the BlogHer08 conference. I played one of the balance games - Table Tilt - and did quite well, I must say. Consumer Reports (CR) has also been busy trying out the new fitness game. I first told [...]

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When it comes to running shoes, you gotta get some that will support your most intense workouts or you could end up in pain or injured. But with so many to choose from, how do you know which ones are best? Our friends over at Consumer Reports’ ShopSmart magazine did the - yes - legwork [...]

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Young children exercise a lot - an average of three hours a day when they’re nine years-old, says a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. But by the time they’re 15, their daily physical activity is down to just 49 minutes on weekdays and about a half-hour on weekends.

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We’ve been talking a lot about booty-kicking workouts lately, so it was perfect timing when fitness model, Jamie Eason, got in touch with me yesterday to let me know she will be on the cover of the September issue of Oxygen magazine - and the topic is glutes.
Here’s a sneak peek of the cover - [...]

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Ready for more free stuff? Here we go with week 2 in this month’s giveaways.
Here’s the prize - a Reebok Resistance Tube (Level 1) can be all yours. I thought I would make it a little more interesting this week. To enter the drawing, head on over to the FFTV community from now until this [...]

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Last month, I told you a little about the FitWit Boot Camp class I’ve been taking. Since then, a lot of you have been asking me how it’s going, so I thought this time I would show you. (it’s a long story, but if you click anywhere on the picture below, it will take you [...]

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I thought it would be fun to end the week with this light-hearted list from Newsweek. The magazine names seven of the silliest fitness fads - it says some of them don’t give you much of a workout; others put you more at risk of getting hurt. Can you guess what they are? (Hint - [...]

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Losing weight is about much more than the physical changes – to have permanent weight loss, you may need to make changes on the inside, too.

The mental factor is critical. It’s how Becoming Thin Within Internet Talk Radio show host, Deborah J. Wright, finally lost 60 pounds and has kept it off for over [...]

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He used to weigh 1,234 pounds. Now after two years of diet, exercise, and medical care ABC News reports Manuel Uribe has dropped more than 520 pounds and he’s determined to shed many more.
Has anyone else been following this story? It caught my attention when I read Manuel had gained so much weight that he [...]

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Do you read muscle and fitness magazines while you workout? If you do, they could be bringing you down. A new study finds all those ultra-fit images in the mags might be undoing the mood-boosting effects of exercise.

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